Jean Chen Ho Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Jean Chen Ho is an author. Author of FIONA AND JANE (now out in paperback!) 📚 2023-24 Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Skidmore College 📝 she/her/tā

A Burst of Light and Other Essays
Audre Lorde
I’ve been reading A BURST OF LIGHT & Other Essays this week for soul nourishment
Hardcover, 2017
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Edinburgh
Alexander Chee
The people at my residency are reading: a book about salmon, Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres, Alexander Chee Edinburgh, and Claudia Rankine Just Us
Paperback, 2016
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heartbroke
Chelsea Bieker
Bieker offers an unsentimental view of the hardscrabble lives of the white working class in a less romanticized region of California.
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In the Not Quite Dark: Stories
Dana Johnson
@DeniseHamilton_ @AltaJournal I love Elsewhere, California! Dana Johnson’s fiction is an inspiration. Love her short stories
Paperback, 2016
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Elsewhere, California
Dana Johnson
@DeniseHamilton_ @AltaJournal I love Elsewhere, California! Dana Johnson’s fiction is an inspiration. Love her short stories
Paperback, 2012
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Valleyesque: Stories
Fernando A. Flores
Such a pleasure to read and review these three new story collections for @nytimesbooks: Chelsea Bieker’s HEARTBROKE, Fernando A. Flores’s VALLEYESQUE, and Erica Plouffe Lazure PROOF OF ME😍🤓☺️ https://t.co/sYjttLedkE
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sarahland
Sam Cohen
Today is the publication day for Sam Cohen’s SARAHLAND! 🥳🦄💖💐 I’m very excited for this story collection and tonight’s @skylightbooks event with Sam and Nikki Darling❤️ You should read this book if you’re into stories about smart funny strange sexy queer femmes✨✨✨ https://t.co/H9T4vQpbbJ
Paperback, 2022
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Read Now: Essays
Elaine Castillo
Finished HOW TO READ NOW by Elaine Castillo and there’s so many good things but let me tell you I was SOBBING at the chapter on Asian films & how she describes Chang Chen’s character in HAPPY TOGETHER caring for heartbroken Tony Leung, the scene with the tape recorder😭 https://t.co/W82ySFmpCZ
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
@kirstin_chen I’ll bring you a Chanel rapid test at the Counterfeit reading😹
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
@vauhinivara Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson is so amazing for this
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book